they're part of it and realized everything you thought you knew. i'm charge was a big issue. bahrain slashes the sentences for dozens of anti-government activists but human rights groups call it a half measure western states avert their gaze. for children are killed as a car bomb explodes and hits a school bus near damascus there's no news of ukrainian journalists kidnapped in syria. and the u.k.'s northeast feels a financial pinch even as the country scrambles out of recession layoffs and regional regeneration.

from moscow twenty four hours a day this is r.t. now bahrain cut the sentences for dozens of people who took part in anti-government rallies last year but the move has failed to satisfy local activists who are calling for the release of all political prisoners human rights groups urging the kingdom to stop using tear gas and torture interrogations its crackdown on public gatherings. and benefits from the two year unrest. oh when it came to supporting calls for democracy in middle east or north african states while denouncing government sponsored violence leaders of the west were vocally critical from our graphic has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave out a very clear message for president which is it is time for him to go but when

scenes of violent clashes between riot police and reform company risk came from bahrain the definition of democracy shifted and rhetoric softened. in the summer the u.s. state department came up with a statement expressing its concerns over the human rights situation and alleged torture in bahrain this was only several months after washington had restarted weapons sales to this gulf state dissenters in bahrain have been directing anger at their government for months but now stop arming the killers is a message they are more often sending out to the west somehow the in bahrain blood is worthless and the libyan blood is more important it's just critical a stand so you see for from travels to europe to direct attention to what he believes to be brutal repression in his country he and others like him have managed to alert human rights organizations but that's as far as it goes there go. clinton

made a statement about bahrain about the human rights situation in bahrain and this. one protester was killed you know and show you that there is no impact on the ground we are a victim because we live in a country they condemn the violence committed by the bahraini government against the peaceful protests that and but that is still continuing for decades bahrain has been one of washington's closest allies in the gulf its naval base houses the u.s. fifth fleet and six thousand troops seemingly irreversible decision made decades ago despite a growing anti-american mood among some of bahrain's neighbors. anything happens in the bush era plan or any of the other plans that there are allegations of a nuclear weapon being built we are very close to all of those sites and we have to make the right decision in preventing any kind of catastrophe coming here we on our own are not capable of doing that and that's why we turn to our friends and allies

and officials firmly deny that washington plays a decisive role in preventing any revolution happening in bahrain but even the bahraini government's information minister suggests the us main fact be playing a double game. i think the iranian opposition is a key ally of the us leader of the opposition and the terrorist members of the opposition have close ties with foreign embassies in bahrain we can leak some of the old many documents proving that if this is true then washington sitting comfortably you can quickly switch sides but for now the opposition in bahrain is left to wonder as to why goals to support democracy from some are less worthy of attention than others. r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain four people have died in a car bombing near the syrian capital damascus in a vehicle exploded near a busy crossing and another planned terror attack a much larger one has been thwarted in the country's north

a correspondent in the region paula slim has the data. and in fact we're going to have that in the next few minutes time let's move on the international efforts to put an end to the violence in syria amounts so as media speculation about what is actually going to be done to achieve peace moscow has denied reports that a new russian american deal is in the works saying the only way out is by creating a transitional government a plan drawn up in geneva in june and a syrian delegation has held talks in moscow amid claims the authorities in damascus could be ready to agree to the plan and your person off has more. moscow on thursday has officially denied speculation that russia and the united states have been secretly working on a plan b. on the conflict in syria and has once again stressed that it's sticking by the agreements reached last summer in geneva now moscow has a good chance of mediating this since it's been in contact with both the

authorities and the syrian opposition mr brahimi is also expected in the russian capital on saturday syria's deputy foreign minister met with russia's chief diplomat in moscow on thursday behind closed doors very little details came out of it but there is speculation that they were discussing the a long awaited peace deal in the syrian conflict and it comes after international envoy on syria mr brahimi met with the syrian president on monday in damascus after this meeting he said that he had a good feeling and some positive things were happening there speculation that they were discussing a peaceful transition of power involving the creation of a transitional government which could include all sides of the conflict in the case on the tentative road to recovery but parts of the country are not sharing in the turnaround people in the britains poorest region the northeast are still feeling the pinch three times more attended suicides there than in the london area. went to

see why the situation looks so bleak. as the old saying impressing gays it's grim up north it's a perception of life in some of the nation's other major cities recessions hit the u.k. hard it's been in the northeast where it's been felt particularly acutely. you know come in a recession and that is right. here i mean you know the very people who are living on the poverty line trade union leader furious with the government's decision to close sunderland's rempel a factory it's a government venture that began back in the nine hundred forty s. to provide employment the people with disabilities two weeks before christmas the government announced that they were going to close. in factories and leaves a very bleak uncertain future for disabled workers killa stops was laid off from another rempel a factory back in april and accuses the government of forcing people out of paid jobs and on to

a life of welfare we were told in the week before we left the factory. jobs. yeah in fact just four people from his old factory found a job it's not the first time the northern workers have felt the first hand of a conservative government back in the one nine hundred eighty s. and the miners' strike and the margaret thatcher became a symbol of a divided nation this mining village in the living museum in the northeast gives us a snapshot of the past nearly three decades since margaret thatcher and her conservative government crushed the miners' unions the impact that policies had on the north east was extreme and long felt and even today there are many people who still have a deep mistrust of the conservative government the conservatives reputation up here is one that's hard to shake and it makes it hard for them to get

a fair hearing on any plans to regenerate so to find out more we decided it was time to pay a visit to number ten i was shocked at the level of understanding on the conservative benches of how people who live in. the northeast. very often and i think they have a completely different view of how people's lives of the government are accused of not understanding the north but isn't that your job to represent the things to be a fair bit of bickering that goes on among northern m.p.'s. well i mean having an accent in the house of commons you know i've got quite happy ducks and but that sort of you get sneers when you have an accent when you speak in the commons from the government benches so that in itself is just an example of how the mismatch between the two sides of the government insists it's treating grace in the area seriously and his earmarks money infrastructure projects targeting the northeast in

particular but a legacy of letdowns has left many northerners less than an seized. the government this is going to happen this is. it's a complete shambles so all in it together or a nation divided one thing seems that with many predicting an increase in unemployment and a triple dip recession for the u.k. the challenge is if the year ahead looks to be testing times for everyone surface r.t. sunderland. one of the earliest stories now four people have died in a car bombing near the syrian capital damascus and with more on that. we are hearing that some four people have been killed and ten people injured in an explosion of a booby trapped car in damascus now we understand that most of the people who are

in willed and injured are students in a separate incident the authorities managed to uncover a truck loaded with some three tons of explosives in the north a managed to dismantle those before any kind of incidents of could there have been numerous incidents throughout today and the last few days through the army rebels and through the army troops in the rebels fighting one another we're also hearing reports that the troops managed to destroy a number of rebel vehicles as well as missile launches at the same time they've reported that they've managed to prevent rebel attacks on checkpoints in numerous religious social media workers are in the firing line particularly when it comes to rebels taking journalists hostage a second deadline has expired for the capture of a ukrainian journalist who's been held by a rebel group was taken back in october there was already one did lime put in terms of when a ransom of some fifty thousand fifty fifty million u.s.

dollars needed to be paid that has not been paid a second deadline passed earlier just yesterday that two was most we're hearing from the ukrainian foreign ministry that it has been holding talks over her release but that they haven't released any kind of details on this now the rebels almost strangers to kidnapping foreigners there are two russian workers in stereo who were also taken hostage last week and the russian government is now trying to secure the release the mounting violence in syria comes against the backdrop of and it's elation of the information war that is happening in the country the rebels have continued in posting videos of village massacres that they've been carrying out massacres in which they've laid aside and his loyalists now the damascus regime has always insisted that it is the rebels who are responsible for these killings russia too says that the rebels are trying to provoke foreign intervention by posting such videos point needs to be made that all these kinds of videos almost impossible to

verify. ban on americans adopting russian kids is about to be signed into law president putin is ready to put pen to paper in response to washington sanctioning russian officials we bring you the details later. afghanistan says it's losing millions of dollars in tax revenue because foreign firms when they take on paying up reports off the break. if you're from my generation or younger and you were born into the one percent that i have a lot of college debt i sure do you know the deal used to be that you paid a significant amount for education but in turn that gave you a much higher salary later but now the system works in reverse many young americans studied very hard to not make any money at all around nine percent of americans

with student loans have defaulted and at least nine but maybe up to eighteen percent are ninety days late with their payments given the situation the people at u.c. berkeley were nice enough to give away a million dollars in scholarships for everyone everyone that's an illegal immigrant yeah that's right if you're born in america then pay to jump the border and enjoy the red carpet education treatment the people who would be getting the scholarships are mostly the children of illegal immigrants who spent many of their formative years in america and yeah i could see the logic that could be hard for them to get an education when the when they aren't citizens but they came into the country illegally it isn't taxpayers jobs to help them but wait berkeley is a private institution so i guess they can give out the money to whoever they want whenever they want however they want but berkeley management if you're watching this i would really appreciate if you chose some financial mercy to american citizens it isn't like they don't need the help but that's just my opinion.

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children suffer. has more on the president putin's agenda. he says that he doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't sign it but he did mention that he should take one very close careful look at the final draft of this law on top of that however and has also mentioned that he is ready to sign. a law which would increase the protection of russian children in the country itself now the law bears the name of this was a young boy who was adopted by an american family and died while in custody of his new adoptive father now the father was left with just a fine after leaving his young son in a car in the blistering heat for hours because we're parked outside of his office and it's the cases precisely like this the russian lawmakers who say that the american system is not is not cut out to provide enough security for the

russian children who are being adopted by american parents and should another tragedy like this strike they don't want the russian children to suffer now a lot of people see this as they get back at the americans for the magnitsky act the so-called act which entails a list of people who are prohibited from ever entering the united states and their financial assets in the country also are frozen now miscue was a russian lawyer who was imprisoned on charges of tax evasion and died while in custody that case has never seen any any logical conclusion it is not possible at this point to say whether or not the people who are accused of being involved in the case are actually at fault and should be blamed for his death. the u.k. is now accused of supplying the kits to spy on human rights activists in bahrain and other countries with oppressive regimes well class british surveillance technology has reportedly been sold across the globe and it's capable of intercepting any kind of data find out more r.t.

dot com. that's also online the deputy of russia's main muslim spiritual leader is shot dead in the north caucasus more details on the town attack ahead to artie's web site. iran says it will allow u.n. nuclear inspectors to look at the military base the specter of carrying out atomic related work but only if the threats against it are dropped but israel's prime minister built his reelection campaign around an anti iran platform and washington is piling on the sanctions well let's now talk to mohammad has uncanny from the faculty of political science and islamic studies at the saudi university thanks for joining us here on r.t. why isn't the international community taking iran up on its offer of goodwill. excuse me i lost your words can you repeat again yes why isn't the international

community taking iran up on this offer of goodwill. well first of all i do believe that we have to define what is an international community you know the problem is that the americans have just. portrayed the international community in a way that's as if the whole war is such commissions it won't and that it's not the case it's just they would i think this is if you are not is us into this who are putting pressure on the war on. portraying uranium you can get issue as a threat. for example we know russian policy chinese policy is we have more than one hundred members. movement member of war saying that we or not suspicious of you want and you want these are just to me

the nuclear facilities for this purpose and so. i just wanted to can only point that it's not the international community who is concerned it is just united states and that's at the same time that at the same time iran is set to conduct naval drills in the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf how does that correspond with tehran offers of cooperation. yeah as far as the persian gulf is concerned it has been always the policy of the war on you winning in policy in the persian war is the fact that we. we the members of this region the out of palm trees in the south last year on the north also iraq who are the community members of this regional security is a regional much of it was. to create

a regional security arrangement but unfortunately the united states has been provoking those out of our laws in a way to give them this feeling that the threat is coming from terror on you need our presence here on our new real earnestness is a guarantee for the security of the region but we all know that you want has never been a threat to any conflict we have been weak team of that you want to iraq war even during the war with the arab states or out of neighborhoods supporting saddam hussein at that time we didn't threaten them i mean if you give a regional issue the security of the persian gulf the nuclear issue is also something that we have to deal with in that perspective but i don't the whole issue when it comes to you one is the fact that you want is now changing the

balance of power in duration so the problem is not the nuclear issue is not it's not the security person called americans are doing do this in order to change the balance the balance that has been changed in favor or we won't do to default that's up almost. uprising in darfur so. just pulling their order to make sure that they can contain a warning as a regional homered that's correct ok ok but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is been heightening his auntie iran rhetoric and tehran is doing the same to israel can this circle be broken by either side. yeah there is another factor another very important factor i mean you know. israelis have always saying that it won't is somehow. also.

they are saying that you are nice and not. all who are they or exaggerate you ring in defense in order to reassure americans to come along and to forget you want you know where you can't stop the rain in peace or nuclear technology. i think what would have to leave it there i'm afraid we have to leave it there thanks for joining us there mohammed sun conny with those thoughts from the faculty of political science and islamic studies at the best thank you. doctors and nurses are once again on the streets calling for plans to privatized hospitals to be scrapped striking but we can arrest the workers are also angry about possible layoffs many still unsure whether their contract renewed next year will spain's government says the cuts are needed to maintain the health service

recession the country's regions are an estimated one hundred forty five billion euros in debt. militants in pakistan a policeman in the northwest of the country reportedly kidnapped twenty two others dozens of taliban gunmen armed with rocket propelled grenades and automatic weapons attack three police posts in an area near to what's considered an insurgent stronghold gov officials say an operation to try and rescue the security personnel is now under way. the newly elected japanese government has to revise a decision to phase out really a power by twenty forty new prime minister declared sustained economic growth was his top priority and said rejecting nuclear energy could undermine one of the country's biggest areas of expertise last year an earthquake and suing tsunami brought the fukushima nuclear power plant close to disaster thousands of people

from there because of leaking radiation. the afghan foreign ministry says the country has lost more than seventy million dollars in tax because foreign firms linked to nato are not paying their dues report says tax dodgers rely on the us that in ice to keep carbon off their backs the political analyst and former afghan it turns away says local politicians are equally to blame. what was going on in two thousand and one two thousand and two when the interim authority came to existence in this country they signed deals exempting some of these companies we were dealing with need to and i sat and then under that umbrella many other companies came and started. carpetbagging and backpacking in illegitimate gains and they never paid taxes this is not new and this government will never have peace the guts to collect taxes from those row companies just an aviation alone.

there are dozens and dozens of companies who are bringing passengers and cargo to this country and who are bringing other goods and they have never paid any taxes they've never paid even landing fees in some cases they haven't paid for flight fees this is just aviation and you can imagine in other fields of commerce. fuel and transportation and logistics and security in other arenas in all areas there are hundreds of millions of dollars every year there are scaping and this government also sometimes gives them some reprieve by reducing their taxes and exchange for bribes. france says no to calls for help from its former colony the central african republic later will bring you live analysis of western patrons treat local governments in the. region. and

these teams look back at how during a santa launched his groundbreaking interview show broadcast exclusively on r.t. view of winning stories from twelve after a short break coming up soon. it's time now for business and dimitris here in the studio with us so this is a u.s. fiscal cliff still causing havoc for the market that is absolutely true seeing a fourth day of losses on the u.s. markets for example because there's still no deal reached just four days left to find some kind of deal between obama and congress and also now it's coupled with the debt ceiling in the u.s. also hitting the ceiling just once again this could create drastic consequences certainly could and they could more on this in a couple minutes. it's. was

the. in this remote siberians image people still sing the songs which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the ancient rituals practiced by the will set up church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign bierria are a conservative community here known as the simi skeer a word which refers to family. of god believers need there yet i feel that. i now am that i first asked her and that i was people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to show them how to dance in the local star. the use of prayer and the bell and the girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be a model stick. their head.